Disclaimer The following is the same content that I have posted in my other blog on this topic in R, but written in Python. While I actually first wrote the code for doing this in Python, I’ll be posting the similar verbiage from that blog here. Introduction Often when scraping data, websites will ask a… Continue reading Python Musings #7: Simulating FSAs in lieu of real postal code data.
Category: Python Musings
PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module
Whats great about Blogging and social media is that you get to learn so much if you use it right. After sharing my last blog on LinkedIn, Casper Crause told me about the siuba module created by Michael Chow from which allows Python users experience to using R’s powerful dplyr package (developed by Hadley Wickham)… Continue reading PythonMusings #6: dplyr in Python? First impressions of the siuba (小巴) module
PythonMusings #5: Make a Stock/Crypto Ticker Discord Bot with this Simple Script!
With a little bit of time off I decided to explore the discord.py module again with trying to make some of my own Discord bots. The bot I decided to make is a simple stock/crypto ticker bot that tracks the live price of a stock/crypto that I want. This was inspired by the r/Cryptocurrency discord… Continue reading PythonMusings #5: Make a Stock/Crypto Ticker Discord Bot with this Simple Script!
Python Musings #4: Why you shouldn’t use Google Forms for getting Data- Simulating Spam Attacks with Selenium
Its no secret- Google Forms is one of the most popular sites for making surveys, sign-up lists, contact forms and the like. The forms can be custom designed and data is stored and formatted quite nicely. But what you may not know – is that with a little bit of Selenium and nonsense data- your… Continue reading Python Musings #4: Why you shouldn’t use Google Forms for getting Data- Simulating Spam Attacks with Selenium
Python Musings #3: Geocoding data with Selenium and Google Maps
How to create a robust solution for getting properly formatted addresses and geo-codes from Google maps using selenium and some Regular expressions in Python.
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Go from “ZERO to HERO” Learning Python with these Free Resources! [Part 1] (Python Musings #2)
Over the past couple of years I have dabbled with using Python. As someone who learned how to code with R being my first language, I didn’t see the reason to switch to Python. While it is a known powerful, flexible and easy to learn language whenever I tried to pick it up- it didn’t… Continue reading Go from “ZERO to HERO” Learning Python with these Free Resources! [Part 1] (Python Musings #2)
IDE Tricks #1: Multiple Cursors in PyCharm
I saw this trick while learning about Unit Testing in Python to help speed up editing code which is copy-pasted, but needs some slight changes when using PyCharm 1. Click on where you want your cursor to be first.2. Hold the “Alt” Key3. While holding the Alt Key, click where else you want the cursor.4. Enjoy Editing! Hope… Continue reading IDE Tricks #1: Multiple Cursors in PyCharm
Python Musings #1: Reading raw input from Hackkerank Challenges
As some of you may or may not know, Hackkerank is a website that offers a variety practice questions to work on your coding skills in an interactive online environment. You can work on a variety of languages like, Java, C, C++, Python and more! There are a lot of high quality questions that can… Continue reading Python Musings #1: Reading raw input from Hackkerank Challenges
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